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    Chad Miller
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    @chadnsc

    Locale: Duluth, Minnesota

    Sex: Male

    Age: 29

    Race: Dutch, Swedish

    Marital Status: Married, no kids, ever!

    Occupation: Architect

    Location: Duluth, MN

    Interests: All season backpacking, climbing (rock and ice), mountain biking, kayaking, c.c. skiing, reading, films, sketching, model building

    #1420539
    Andrew Richard
    Member

    @fairweather8588

    Locale: The Desert

    Sex: Only with my right hand… Wait, I meant Male, scratch that

    Age: 19

    Married: Nope, dating

    Occupation: Student at Arizona State which makes my….

    Location: Tempe, AZ

    Likes: Jeepin', Road trips, watching sports, butterflies, rainbows, clowns, ponies and romance novels with Fabio on the cover

    Dislikes: Hiking, Backpacking, Trail running, mountain biking, car camping, kayaking, fishing, basically anything that takes me away from said list above (note: extreme sarcasm in use during this list)

    #1420802
    Jesse Squires
    Member

    @shinfuro

    Sex: Male

    Age: 26

    Race: English/American Indian

    Marital Status: Married

    Occupation: Wholesale Purchasing

    Location: Birmingham, Alabama

    Interests: Backpacking, Politics, History, Archaeology, Science

    #1420854
    Charles Grier
    BPL Member

    @rincon

    Locale: Desert Southwest

    Sex: Male

    Age: 70+

    Marital Status: Married w/grandchildren

    Race: Caucasian-Scottish

    Occupation: Retired scientist/academic

    Location: Rural SE Arizona

    Hobbies: Backpacking, Mountaineering, Target shooting, Archery, Reading,Philosophy, Music and Gear making.

    MBTI: INTJ

    #1420933
    Elleyne Beals
    BPL Member

    @tahomus

    Locale: Not usually at home.

    female
    43
    married, 1 kid in college
    location: lake tahoe, ca. desolation wilderness is my backyard- the pct is 5 miles from my house thru the woods.

    occupation: office manager- a job that demands my time in exchange for putting money in my bank account so i can do what i want with the rest of my time.

    preoccupations: making stuff. currently, making fire with a bow drill. i like to make things i use: 16' kevlar canoe, my backpacking gear (everything except my thermarest!) clothes, the rug on my floor, etc. i like to fix things, too. i'm pretty much "homemade"

    activities: flyfishing. hiking. skiing. canoing lake tahoe.

    aspirations: spend 1 month in the woods, wandering the sierras. then maybe more!

    mbti:istj

    #1421015
    Jason Wright
    Member

    @bicimechanic

    Locale: Mid-Atlantic

    Sex: Male

    Age: 30

    Marital Status: Married w/4 dogs

    Race: Mostly Irish

    Occupation: Firefighter/Paramedic Baltimore City, Maryland

    Location: Just outside Baltimore

    Hobbies/Interest: Backpacking, camping, hiking, history of the fire service, reading, American Civil War, my ipod, dogs, cycling, tools.

    #1428329
    Patricia Combee
    Member

    @trailfrog

    Locale: Northeast/Southeast your call

    Sex: Female
    Age: Late 40ish
    Marital Status: Single
    Race: Appalachian American
    Occupation: Medical Transcription
    Location: West Virginia
    Hobbies/Interests: Backpacking, Downhill and cross country skiing, fishing, making/tweaking gear.

    #1429000
    John Tunnicliffe
    Member

    @benwaller

    Locale: Northern California

    is there a form or something? sex/age/marital status/hobbies/…

    huh? a light weight backpacker is not a SKU.

    anyway, as for the personality profile of the lightweight backpacker let me offer the following, though little enough of it describes me and probably even less of it describes you. regardless, near as I can tell (and this is from years of keen observation and practice) the personality profile of a lightweight backpacker is: irascible / impudent / contemplative / arrogant / exhuberant / musical / intolerant and intolerable / happy and friendly / conservative in viewpoint, often tending toward communism / compassionate / careful / reckless / attuned / competitive / mute / raucous / inquisitive / highly perceptive and uncommonly blind. and this is the just part of the list.

    now, not all lightweight backpackers pack all these personality characteristics but we all pack more than one. and not all of these characteristics bunk well together as we all well know. I here offer the metaphor of the trail mix. nuts and raisins, all in one bag.

    so, sorry, no profile. but if there is one personality attribute shared by all of us who value wilderness it is our personal imperative to seek out wild places, there to hone ourselves against momma earth and to, you know, rub our husks off against the rocks.

    now that's personality.

    :)

    #1429087
    Randall Dee
    BPL Member

    @speyguy

    Locale: Cascadia

    Lots of funny stuff so far. Sorry, I'm no comedian. Me…

    Sex: Male

    Age: 48

    Location: Portland, OR USA

    Marital status: married 17 years/ 2 kids

    Occupation: Real Estate appraiser. Past jobs include fishing guide (Alaska) commercial fishing (Alaska) baggage handler with airlines, fire sprinkler fitter and general vagabond.

    Race: western and northern European decent

    Hobbies/interests: backpacking, fly fishing, discovering new (to me) music, martial arts point sparring, family and friends, tinkering with my 73 BMW 2002, gardening, BBQing, good beer and a good peaty single malt.

    #1466053
    Tony Wong
    BPL Member

    @valshar

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    There were some 58 or so respondents to this survey…though not all of the resulting numbers will add up to 58 for particular categories.

    These are very general groupings and observations and are not meant to offend anyone or to over generalize or stereotype anyone or group of people.

    Some of the responses defied an easy category, but here is what I came up with:

    Profile of a lightweight backpacker:

    Male: 46
    Female: 8

    Single: 24
    Married: 28

    Ages:

    Less than 21 yrs old: 5
    21-30 yrs old: 19
    31-40 yrs old: 10
    41-50 yrs old: 10
    51-60 yrs old: 4
    61-70 yrs old: 2
    71 or older: 1

    Race:

    Caucasian: 40
    Asian: 2
    Unknown/No response: 3

    Please note: many who were multi-racial with Caucasian heritage were grouped as Caucasian. I hope that I offended no one in doing so.

    In the vast majority of cases, Caucasian was of European decent.

    Occupations:

    This was hard to classify or group and forgive my generalizations:

    Those who work in education: 8
    Those who are currently students: 8
    Those who work in IT: 4
    Those in Science & Engineering: 6
    Those in Military, Law Enforcement, Public Safety: 4
    Those Retired: 4
    Those in Health Care: 2
    Those in Business/Sales: 7
    Other: 5 (this ranges from authors, artist, pilot, carpenter, etc)

    Well this was fun to see all of the responses and I leave it to you to draw any conclusions that you want.

    The more interesting aspect of this has been being able to read people's responses and to see the details of their interest and lives.

    There is a wide diversity among us and we all benefit from such a large pool of knowledge to draw upon.

    Thank you for all of you who joined me in this whimsical quest for knowledge.

    If there are any of you who wish to add your own information to this list, please feel free to do so.

    Adding to this can only serve to allow your fellow BPLer's know more about you and you about everyone else here.

    Thanks!

    -Tony

    #1466093
    Daniel Fosse
    Member

    @magillagorilla

    Locale: Southwest Ohio

    Sex: male
    Age: 35
    Marital Status: Married, 3 great kids
    Race: Cherokee/German (White boy)
    Occupation: IT, systems developer
    Location: South-East Ohio
    Hobbies/Interests: Family time, backpacking, collecting music, booze and cigars, art, cold beers, movies, hangin with the dudes, takin' it easy (which never actually happens with 3 tots)

    INTJ here as well.

    #1466103
    Chris Morgan
    BPL Member

    @chrismorgan

    Locale: Southern Oregon

    As a fellow INTJ I find this thread fascinating, as a healthy majority of the responses are this Myers Briggs type, yet they only comprise 3.5% of the general population. I wonder what the most prevalent MB type would be for a "traditional" backpacker.

    Perhaps it's the J that keeps those baseweights down…

    #1466105
    Sabine Schroll
    BPL Member

    @sabi

    female
    44
    happy single with some cats
    european mountain mix living still in Europe
    vet and writer
    job, backpacking, canoeing, travelling, taking pics, reading, gardening (japanese garden), searching for simplicity and enjoy life

    #1466113
    Joe Clement
    BPL Member

    @skinewmexico

    Locale: Southwest

    Sex – Male
    Age – 50
    Marital status – married, 3 underachieving children
    Race – white. Came from England in 1692. Certainly mongrels by now.
    Occupation – petroleum engineer
    Hobbies – skiing, Boy Scouts, sailing, backpacking, various gun games, hunting.

    Apparently from a generation that doesn't know what a MBTI is, or why you would want one.

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